I spent a couple of hours in the Vice Principal’s office in HS, once for skipping class when there was a sub, once for getting into a wee verbal tiff with another ( he was totally at fault ). But not quite formal after-class detention.
I put one-two days, just because it was more than zero.
Only once that I can recall – just an hour during lunch because my friend and I were playing Power Rangers and got detention for “fighting” (they didn’t care that we were playing and not even making physical contact for the most part).
Zero detention for me. I was no angel. I just wasn’t caught.
I was assigned lunch detention once, in 6th grade. I took a shortcut through a classroom between periods that wasn’t supposed to be used that way and got caught by a teacher. The rule was written over the door I’d gone through, so I had no excuse. But I was normally a total goody two-shoes, so it was a little traumatic.
I reported for detention the next day, the teacher couldn’t find a classroom for me to eat in, and I was sent back to regular lunch and told to forget about it.
One day of In School Suspension for getting in a fight.
Served lots of after school detention my freshman year at the very strict private school. Also got suspended for one day for allowing someone to copy my homework. After we moved and I went to public school I served only one after school detention for my remaining 3 years of school.
In my highschool, a teacher could give you a detention specific to them, where you have to show up in their classroom after school for however long they felt like keeping you(generally 1/2 hr or less- basically until they finished up for the day and went home). This might affect[effect? I can never get that one right] your grade in that class, but wasn’t part of your disciplinary record. I got a few of these, mostly for non-participation(gym class, group projects, oral reports).
If you were really out of line and got sent to the principal’s office for something, or if you skipped a class altogether, you’d likely get an “office detention”. This was one hour after school, in an assigned location. I think the teachers were on some rotating schedule as far as babysitting duty was concerned. I got one once, for skipping geometry class. Office detentions were tracked, so after a certain amount of detentions per quarter, you could get Saturday detention. You could also get a “Saturday” for certain particular offenses, as well, like fist-fighting. I got mine for skipping the aforementioned office detention. Then there were in-school suspensions, and plain-old suspensions, and expulsion. No experience with those.
More than I care to admit.
The one time I got suspended was funny. We had school security who carried walkie-talkies to communicate. I decided to get the same walkie-talkie and get on their frequency to mess with them. That was fun while it lasted.
Yes.
His theory was that everyone else would be ashamed when they found out that I got punished for them leaving.
Guess how well that worked. :mad:
Reminds me of the time I got punished for erasing graffiti.
The lessons we learn in school are not written on any teaching plan.
Bastards!
Never after-school, which meant you did something fairly bad, but I did get lunch detention a few times for tardiness. It was never because I was “dallying in the halls” but because something would happen that would mess up the routine. There just isn’t enough time to plan for eventualities, like you can in real life.
I did occasionally wind up tardy after that, but I discovered a secret. If you had a good reason to be running late, you could run by the counselor’s office and get a pass. Sure that made you later than if you hadn’t, but I didn’t invent the system.It’s not as if any teacher ever started class as soon as the bell rang, so I’m not so sure why so many were such sticklers.
If we’re counting elementary school punishments, I did get in trouble for talking a few times, and have to “stand on the wall” (the sidewalk leading to the playground exit). You were given a “Warning” when this happened. You had four warnings before the next one would lower your citizenship grade, and I was sure to always use them all up. I didn’t want to lower my grade because it counted against getting all As, which made it where you got to go to a Pizza Hut buffet for lunch four times a year, as well as get a card allowing you and your parents to get special deals at local businesses.
I also used the computers at school to print up a dirty joke and got in trouble, but it was so close to graduation that my punishment was just that I couldn’t use the computers for the last couple of days of school. And the only reason I got in trouble was that a prudish sub was on duty in the library.
I did skip classes at times, but I was just marked absent and never got in trouble. Never understood why you got in less trouble for being truant than being tardy.
After school detention? Only once.
Brought to the front, bent over and paddled in front of the class? More than I care to remember. 
Interesting sidenote: Both of my kids finished high-school without a single detention.
Never for me. I went to schools that were on a military base so most of the teachers and staff were either retired military or their spouse was. If you got out of line in class your parents found out real quick. I still remember Sergeant major Wingo, who cracked heads when you were at recess or waiting for a bus
Nobody messed with Sergeant major Wingo :eek:
I said 1-2, but that would be 2 3 hour sessions each, not literally days.
I’m gonna be snarky and say I don’t like the poll options, but I think I spent a day or two in detention, for fighting in middle school. Funny thing was I started it and I don’t think I even had a reason to be mad at the kid, I think I just wanted the experience of being in a fight. 12 year olds are weird creatures.
I had my own seat in the principals office; literally with my name on it. When I graduated the principal give it to me as a going away present. Our school would start with a list of names being “called to report” and the secretary would sometimes add-lib “and for the 37th consecutive day, Kopek report to the principals office”. I never did anything remotely bad enough to get expelled but I did catch a couple 3 day suspensions.
The private school I attended from 7th to 10th grade had demerit hall on Saturday mornings. You got between 1 and 4 demerits for various offenses, and if you got 6 demerits in a semester, you had to spend 2 hours in demerit hall, from 9-11am on Saturday. Another 6 demerits got you another demerit hall, and if you got 18 demerits in a semester, you got a 1-day suspension.
Teachers could also give you ‘office trips’ - if you got under their skin, intentionally or not, they could send you to the office for the rest of the class period. Three of those in a semester got you a suspension. One semester, I got my third office trip for looking like I wasn’t paying attention. The fact that I was able to recite, verbatim, the last sentence the teacher had said before he tossed me didn’t make one bit of difference.
I got at least four suspensions, for at least eight days. Probably had somewhere between a half-dozen and a dozen demerit halls during my time there. I’d love to look up the actual number on my Permanent Record. 
Never once got suspension or detention before or after attending that school.
I got suspended. But it wasn’t my fault, man! He started it, that douche.
Detention wasn’t an option when and where I went to school. Keeping kids back after school or making them come in on holidays wasn’t allowed.
If we misbehaved you got sent to either the principal or deputy who’d give you the cane.
And No, that didn’t involve basket weaving or furniture making, it involved a piece of straight cane about 3 feet long and slightly thicker diameter than your average pen.
You’d stand up straight and hold your hand out in front of you, palm upwards. The Sadist ehhh, I mean principal, would stand side on, lift the cane up in the air and with a decent swish bring it down trying to hit right across the tips of your fingers.
Being obnoxious was generally 1 on each hand.
Being pretty bad was 4. 2 on each hand.
Top end was 6 of the best.
One of the deputy sadists ehhh principals was a total bastard. He could manage to just flick the very tips of the fingers so it stung like buggery but would claim it as a “Miss” and make you hold em out again.
Unfortunately by the time my school life was ending, so was corporal punishment. After giving a young bloke who wandered into the wrong toilets a bit of a soaking, a mate and I had to spend a week standing outside the deputy sadist ehh principals office all lunch time until we could think of a suitable punishment. None of our suggestions were deemed to be good enough.